Bhutto party says Musharraf admission shows need for UN probe

AFP
Sunday January 6, 2007

The party of murdered Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto said that President Pervez Musharraf's admission she may have been killed by a gunman underscored the need for a UN probe.

In an interview with the US television network CBS, Musharraf admitted for the first time that Bhutto could have been shot.

She died in a gun and suicide bomb attack as she left a campaign rally in the northern city of Rawalpindi on December 27. Her Pakistan People's Party (PPP) has insisted ever since that she was shot.

Musharraf's comments, however, contradict the interior ministry's official finding that the gunman missed his target and Bhutto died from bashing her head against the car's sunroof as she ducked for cover.

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The president told the CBS programme "60 Minutes," in an interview to be broadcast Sunday, that a gunshot could have been the cause of Bhutto's fatal injuries after all.

Asked if Bhutto might have been shot, he answered: "Yes, absolutely, yes. Possibility."

PPP supporters, many of whom believe the authorities know more than they are saying about the murder of the head of Pakistan's most powerful political dynasty, were furious at the about-turn.

"The regime is constantly changing its position and that reinforces doubts and suspicions and lends credence to demands by the PPP for an independent inquiry under UN auspices," party spokesman Farhatullah Babar told AFP.

Musharraf has invited Scotland Yard to help investigate the murder but has ruled out PPP demands for a UN-led probe.

The United States, which has supported Musharraf as a key ally in the "war on terror," has also said there is no need for UN involvement and the PPP has not formally requested such an inquiry.

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